Today started with Maker Faire………

I had a Wonderful Day. We went to the Wenatchee Maker Faire; I can see you scratching your head asking “What is a Maker?” This is straight off their pamphlet. “A Maker is a person or group that displays their project or talent at a Maker Faire in the form of a booth, exhibit, performance, and/or workshop. A Maker is essentially any individual, group, or organization that has a passion to create!” There was a great turn out of Makers and those who wanted to learn a thing or two about them.

I had so much fun talking with the different Makers. What I really enjoyed seeing was that there was so many young Makers; from Drones to Raspberry PI’s, they knew their stuff. There were several 3D Printers represented from the Micro 3D Printer- M3D to the Ultimaker brought in by NCRL (North Central Regional Library).

Welcome to the Maker Faire!

Drones the young Makers were flying.

M3D micro 3D printer

Ultimaker

The Wenatchee Schools got in on the action as well. Here are a couple of examples…..

OMS Trebuchet Competition …..the winner.

Vex Robotics

Robot

There were so many great exhibits. I am going to put just a few more in the post then you will have to look at the Gallery. I will put the rest of my photos there. I was impressed to see the other end of the spectrum there as well. I was able to meet a wonderful Fiber Artist, Kasey Koski. Here is a very special picture of her in front of a wonderful piece. This finger print is her late brother’s. What a wonderful way of honoring his memory, I was very inspired by our conversation. If you get a chance you really should go and check her out on FB.

Well, I hope this has inspired you to think about your own hobbies in a different way. I would bet that you are a Maker. If you like creating, building, teaching others to build…..yeppers you are a Maker my friend. I hope that you find the time to look at the rest of the photos in the Gallery; it will be worth it. I only wished I had photos of the Ham Radio Table…..but it was so busy there every time we tried to get close. So you know the interest was there and they were learning a ton of information. Until next time………Make, Create, Build to your hearts content.